A Clip of LaVar Ball Playing Pickup Basketball

First, a caveat: I like LaVar Ball. I'm not entirely sure what it is. He says wild shit that can, on occasion, tiptoe into problematic territory, but at worst he's a mild irritant, like a nickel allergy. To my mind he's a net positive for the game, as basketball is 64 percent contingent on the drama and personalities in its orbit, which makes the Ball Dad a gas giant. Nowhere was this clearer than when Ball brashly claimed that he could beat a prime Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one.

Over the weekend, an old clip surfaced of LaVar playing in a pickup basketball game. You don't need to know much about basketball or how human bodies should move to quickly realize that LaVar is not, in fact, Michael Jordan.

It feels safe to conclude that LaVar Ball would not fare well in a game with MJ. In that way, LaVar Ball is all of us.